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the graduates of this College have been gladly seized by other 

 leading colleges for important positions in their faculties. I 

 sometimes think that the institutions of higher education in 

 Michigan are called to furnish more than their quota of brightest 

 young men to colleges and universities in other states. But 

 after all that is a useful function of these institutions, and we 

 ought perhaps to feel proud that these graduates are so much in 

 demand as teachers in all parts of our country. 



Speaking for the University of Michigan I desire to congratu- 

 late this College most heartily that on its fiftieth birthday it finds 

 itself guided by so competent a faculty with so efficient a presi- 

 dent at the head; that it sees so many graduates by their lives 

 and their influence reflecting honor upon the College and upon 

 the state, and that its halls are filled by so large and so earnest a 

 company of ingenuous young men and young women who are 

 here training themselves for worthy and useful careers. As 

 the demands upon the institution are increasing with the rapid 

 growth of our population and with the more intelligent pursuit 

 of agriculture, may the means not be wanting to it to make its 

 future even more beneficent than has been this first half -century 

 of its useful life. 



